How to start/stop a windows service using nagios

[Frost, Mark {PBG}]

There might be more than one way to do this, but my
experience/suggestion would be to
 
1) setup an event to act when the service goes critical.  See the Nagios
docs about how to write a simple event script.  Mostly you're making
sure that you'll only attempt to start the service on HARD/CRITICAL
events.
 
2) I'm not too familiar with NC_NET, but I believe it's not dissimilar
from NSClient++ or other NRPE agents in that it can accept NRPE protocol
requests.  You'd define an NRPE command (say "start_service") that run
"net start $ARG1$" where $ARG1$ is the name of the service to start.
It's possible that NC_NET has some built-in capability to manage
services too without resorting to an actual NRPE command.
 
3) Your script from #1 would then run
 
check_nrpe -H <hostname> -c start_service\!<servicename>
 
to start a service.  Stopping is similar, of course.
 
Mark
 
 


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[mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Joe
Astrologo
	Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:39 PM
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	Subject: [Nagios-users] How to start/stop a windows service
using nagios
	
	
	I have nagios 2.3 server installed on a RedHat Linux.
	 
	I have NC_Net and nagios event_log agents installed on various
windows clinets.
	 
	I want nagios to re-start a windows service based on an
application Event Log messages.
	 
	How do I do it?
	 
	Thanks.

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